[moneydance] Archiving old transactions

[Ric Werme]

Edward Reid wrote:
> At 11:23 04/18/08 -0700, William Morton wrote:
> >Is there a way to split out older transactions in a Moneydance database
> >into an "archive" file, to keep the file size of the current database
> >from growing forever?
> 
> If the size of the file is your concern, then my answer is, don't bother. I 
> have over 15 years of personal finance in my MD file (I converted from 
> Quicken a couple of years ago), and the file has grown to a massive 2.7 MB.

Mine is 2.7 MB too!  I have 4400 transactions in my checking account, and
that makes the nagivating with the scroll tab more tricky than getting a
gas pump to stop on a round cost.

One thing I might try is changing the account for old transactions from
"checking" to "checking 2004" (at least for transactions from 2004).  That
all the data is still around, but less underfoot.  ISTR MD recently picked
up a function for bulk changing categories, I guess I don't see it.
Oh well, I'm not going to change things for a while.

> Disk space is becoming cheaper at an astounding rate. Disk speeds are 
> increasing steadily. Home networking speeds and online backup costs (see 
> Jungle Disk for example) have reached the point that a 2.7 MB file is not a 
> big deal.

My last Quicken file took 6 1.2 MB floppies to back up.  At least MD is a
big step in the right direction.  I'd be up to 9-10 Quicken floppies or a
more sensible solution by now.

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